"True
peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the
presence of justice."
-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

" The Oslo "Peace Process"
is "A new instrument for reaching traditional
[Israeli] objectives."--Yitzhak
Rabin describing the rapprochement with the PLO,
according to Uri Savir, his chief negotiator, (from
http://www.fmep.org/reports/v10n3.html)

"It's stupid for any colonial power
to try to run the local people with its own forces. Much
better to get local mercenaries usually brought from some
other region... And Israel is finally recognizing that the
only thing that MAKes any sense is to revert to the classic
colonial pattern -- the South African,
Indian...British-in-India type pattern -- in the areas that
it is handing over to some degree of Palestinian
Authority... I doubt that Israel will keep all the
territories it has now. That would be completely crazy in
fact. Probably they will go back to something like the
extreme demands that have been put forth in the past. The
current agreement is, in fact, way out at the extreme. In
fact, what it looks like now is the Sharon Plan of
1981."-- Noam Chomsky
From MER-TV Program "PEACE PROCESS: REAL OR PHONY?"
(http://www.MiddleEast.org)

Israeli
Position

"I ask Rabin to make concessions,
and he says he can't because Israel is too weak. So I give
him arms, and he says he doesn't need to make concessions
because Israel is strong"
-- Henry Kissinger (quoted in Findley's Deliberate
Deceptions p.199, quoting from Sheehan's The Arabs,
Israelis and Kissinger)

"Whenever we seemed to be having
some success with the Arabs, Begin would proclaim the
establishment of new settlements or make provocative
statements. This behavior ... seriously endangered prospects
of peace"
--Former
President Jimmy Carter Quoted in Findley's deliberate
Deceptions quoting Fred Khouri's Major Obstacles to
Peace.

"I have to tell you that
everybody over there [in Israel]
should know what the [White House] telephone is:
1-212-456-1414. When you're serious about peace, call us."
-- Secretary of State James Baker (06/13/1990)
expressing frustration over Shamir/Israel's desire for land
over peace quoted in Findley's deliberate Deceptions
quoting Thomas Friedman (NYT 06/14/1990).

Peace
Proposals and Israel's Rejectionism

1967-1971: The UN Jarring Mission peace
plan.

1969: The Rogers plan.

1971: As soon as he assumed power, Sadat
offered Israel full peace in 1971.

Despite their inclusion of recognition of
Israel, all these plans were rejected and ridiculed by Israel, as
they included an Israeli withdrawal to the June 4, 1967 borders (and
eventual Palestinian self determination). In addition, Israel often
would counter a peace offer with the announcement of a new settlement
establishment, e.g. after the Reagan/Bush/Baker peace plans. This was
usually done by Likud governments demonstrating their defiance and
in-your-face style settlement expansion, over the "clever" (i.e.
covert) Labor methods of achieving the same goals. (See Findley's
Deliberate Deceptions, pp. 201-205).

Finally a negotiation counterpart... acceptable to Israel

Sadat's
Camp David "Peace" Agreement

What Sadat's
Peace forgot By Edward Said
(Excerpted from "The Question of Palestine," 1979). Western media
role, Begin's in-your-face settlement declaration.

"... the peace with Egypt engendered the
expropriation of half the land in the West Bank and the
establishment of dozens of new settlements; the conclusion of the
evacuation of Sinai was the signal for the Lebanon War.... The
Oslo process also exacted a heavy price by legitimizing the
"settlement blocs" -- Meron Benvenisti (Ha'aretz
12/16/1999)

By signing the peace treaty with Israel, Sadat
basically ignored the Palestinian problem, the core of the whole
conflict, and neutralized his country as the strongest Arab country
facing Israel, while now Israel is free to bomb Lebanon, invade it
(1982) killing 10s of thousands of civilians, occupy its southern
part calling it "Security Zone", annex Jerusalem (1980) and Golan
Heights, (1981), bomb Iraq's nuclear reactor (1981), attack Tunisia
(PLO headquarters in 1985), mercilessly try to crush the Intifada
(1987-), tighten its grip on the W. Bank and Gaza by boosting
settlements, dispossessing Palestinians of yet more land (1980's
& 1990's).. all with total impunity.

The
"Peace Process"

Settlements Population
Increase on the West Bank and Gaza Mostly AFTER the Oslo
agreements. Illustrates Israel actual desire for continuing
the occupation disguised under the "Oslo Peace Process".
(Map source Foundation
for Middle East Peace)

Today we have the Israeli-Fatah "Peace
Process". Aside from the fanfare, this process has brought more
misery on the Palestinians than the actual occupation, where now the
Palestinian Authority (PA) has become the oppressors, crushing any
signs of little Intifadas, torturing people, jailing hamas followers
with no charges, and other practices usually attributed to Israel.
(Note: in the early 80's in an effort to undermine the rising
political legitimacy of the PLO, Israel backed Islamic
fundamentalists, who without this backing, would not have evolved to
the organization known today as Hamas. That, of course, is not
important information to be shared with the public by the
media.)

The GNP (Gross National Product) of the
Palestinian "entity" is 40% less now than before Oslo. 629
Palestinian houses have been demolished by Israel since Sep 1993
(until early 1998). Settlement population have increased by 40% from
120,000 in 1992 to 170,000 in 1998.

The West Bank and Gaza are split into three
areas according to Oslo. Area A: 3-4%, under total Palestinian
control, area B: 30-40% under joint Israeli (military)-Palestinian
(civilian) control, and area C: 60-70% under total Israeli control.
(Under the Wye agreement, 13% of B will go to A, and 13% from C to
B). The result is: Palestinian areas are disconnected islands
scattered around the West Bank, dissected by for-Jews-only highways
built on demolished Palestinian houses and confiscated Palestinian
land. The Palestinian control is now limited to collecting garbage
and tax collection. Everything else is under Israel's mercy including
the control of water resources. Hence, the current peace process is
basically the old Allon Plan, (but with more fanfare and fireworks,)
which was designed to enable Israel to maintain the advantages of the
occupation, while avoiding dealing with the domestic problems. The
Peace Process has made the Israeli occupation legitimate and the
Palestinian's rightful resistance to occupation terrorism.

If Abbas truly cares about his people, rather
than his newly acquired powers, he would step down, in protest over
this fake peace.

"This is your problem but I warn
you that every line in the Oslo accord calls for another
accord.... The Oslo accord is very mysterious and when a
document is mysterious, it usually is in favor of the
stronger party."-- Syrian President Hafez
al-Assadtelling
Yasser Arafat his opinion on the Oslo Deal (as quoted by
Syria's ambassador to the U.S. Walid al-Moualem,
Washington Report 07/1998 p.67).

"It is the Israelis that have
not fulfilled any of their phase 2 obligations" according
to Wye River agreement--
Department of State Spokesman, Wednesday, 6 January 1999.
Source (See U.S.
Report on the Middle
East)

Wye Agreement: A lot of fanfare added to
an ordinary step in the "Peace Process." Perhaps the purpose of it is
to give the sinking American president some "credit." Wye resulted
from Israel's refusal to carry out the second redeployment called for
in Oslo II. The outcome of this agreement is the same as previous
ones: Israel signs along with the Palestinians, then adds new
conditions, and claims the Palestinians are not honoring their part
of the deal. The result, as usual, the party with more power
--Israel-- does what it wants ignoring the accord. This is evident as
Israel embarks on a new settlement frenzy encouraged by Sharon who
called on the settlers to grap as many West Bank hills as they
can.

"There is no such thing as a
freeze [on construction].... Our policy is
to grow and expand... This issue must be coordinated
behind closed doors with the army and not in front of the
media."
-- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Quoted in
Ha'aretz 11/24/1998)

"This justice minister should be
reminded that murder is murder and bloodshed is bloodshed, and one absolutely
cannot give preference to one murderer over another or one terrorist over
another just because the murderer 'is one of ours,' as it were."
-- Meretz
MK (Knesset Member) Yossi Sarid quote-of-the-day on Jerusalem Post Internet
Edition of 02/04/1999.

"Palestinian unilateralism tends
to the rhetorical, Israeli to be the real. "-- Washigton
Post Editorial 03/24/1999 (commenting on Israel's
complain about the possible Palestinian "unilateral"
action, of declaring a state)

Ignoring
Justice to Protect the Budget By
Gideon Levy (Ha'aretz 12/21/1997). Regarding compensation
to Intifada victims. What would happen if Germany did the same
regarding compensating Holocaust victims?

Oslo II map,
or, as the Palestinians call it, the "Leopard Skin" for
obvious reasons. Israel will control fully the light grey area
(A~=56%) and partially the dark grey area (B~=40%). Only the black
area (C~=4%) is under full Palestinian control. This is the map of
the much-lauded land-for-peace deal. (Map source
The Foundation for Middle East Peace.

Netanyahu
Wants CIA Out of the PLO Talks
(Reuters/Ha'aretz 01/30/1998) perhaps because the CIA found out
that the Palestinian Authority was "moving in the right direction
against terrorism," and hence stripping Netanyahu from his only
excuse at killing the Peace Process.

"We are making a constant effort
to preserve the maximum, including territories I would
fight for even if they had no security value." -- Benjamin
Netanyahu in an address to a forum of right-wing
retired officers and security men in Tel Aviv quoted by
Shani Litman in Ha'aretz 03/27/1998

Netanyahu/Likud
Never Miss an Opportunity to Mock
the U.S. By Patrick Cockburn (The Independent 10/07/1998)
First it was Begin, then Shamir and now Netanyahu, who declares a
new settlement while the U.S. is asking for a "time-out." Begin
did that to Reagan and Shamir did it to Bush. It also shows the
real desire Likud has for peace.

Netanyahu's
Iron Wall By Christopher Hitchens (The
Nation 04/17/1998). To Western media the reason Netanyahu will not
withdraw from lands in the West Bank is to avoid "jeopardizing the
security of Israel." However, to his right wing audience the story
is a little different.

Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai:
"The depth of withdrawal from the Golan Heights would be the depth
of security," quoted in the German paper FOCUS (reported by
Ha'aretz 08/17/1998). Mordechai later denied saying this. Indeed,
only when there is a just peace will Israel have its
security.

Refugee
Issues

"We must do
everything to ensure they [the Palestinian
refugees] never do return!"--
David Ben-Gurion, in his diary, July 18, 1948,
(Michael Bar-Zohar's Ben-Gurion: The Armed Prophet,
1967).

"Any
one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back
must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for
it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better
that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let
this
happen."
-- Golda
Meir, 1961, in a speech to the
Knesset, reported in Ner, October 1961

Arafat
and Abbas Authority's Corruption:
PA as the Occupier's
Subcontractor

In occupied Palestine the consequence of the long Zionist campaign of killing off
all the good leaders in the Fatah-camp, is
that you only have the traitors left; people who only have the Jews' agenda, and
not that of their Palestinian brethren, before them. These Quislings have been
ordered to turn on the real freedom fighters, the Hamas and likes, who continue
to resist the forces of occupation - just like the Apartheid regime in South
Africa used Blacks from Inkatha against the freedom fighters of
the ANC.
A process which we call the "Inkathization" of the Fatah-movemen
and whereby Fatah has been transformed into a tool for the
occupation.

Mahmoud Abbas is a Traitor
Israeli paper reveals Israeli Arms transfer to help
Abbas take on Hamas,
British paper on Abbas treason and an article by Mike Whitney on the same
subject

Neither Peace
Nor Security in the West Bank and Gaza
Strip
By Tim Wise (Grassroots
International 07/1997). Corruption within the Palestinian
Authority has contributed to this dampening of investment. The
commission set up by the elected Palestinian Legislative Council
to investigate alleged misuses of $326 million of public funds
concluded that corruption was endemic in the PA and its
ministries. The report resulted in 16 out of 18 of the PA's
ministers resigning. David Hirst, a veteran Middle East reporter
for the Guardian Weekly, reported in April on what he called
"Arafat's takeover of the Gazan economy." According to Hirst, a
company belonging to PA President Yasir Arafat's wife controls the
importation of many basic commodities-cement, gasoline, flour.
Hirst reports that "out of the $74 for which a ton of cement is
sold in Gaza, $17 goes to the Authority, and $17 into
[Arafat's] own account in a Tel Aviv bank."

Not
Much of a Choice
By Abdel-Jawad
Saleh (Al-Ahram Weekly 06/22/2000). On Arafat
corruption/becoming a dictator with the help of Israel and US, and
the ramification for Palestinians.

"The Palestinian Authority's
"deplorable" human rights record has been extensively
documented. Without extenuating PA culpability, it bears
recalling that Israel recruited Arafat precisely in order
to facilitate repression. Thus Rabin boasted that the PA
would quell Palestinian resistance "without problems
caused by appeals to the High Court of Justice, without
problems made by [the human rights
organization] B'Tselem, and without problems from
all sorts of bleeding hearts and mothers and fathers."
Truth be told, "Palestinian Authority" is a misnomer.
Apart from what Israel and the US authorize it to do, the
PA exercises no authority whatsoever: in all respects it
is in thrall to them. The Oslo process marked, in Meron
Benvenisti's phrase, the continuation of
"occupation...albeit by remote control." In exchange for
the perquisites of collaboration, the PA must ruthlessly
crush all opposition to continued Israeli occupation."
-- Norman Finkelstein (From his article
Securing the Occupation 11/28/1998 found elsewhere
on this page)

"Israel's negotiating partners
shouldn't expect Mr. Barak to make substantive
concessions.... Barak's vision of peace will differ from
Mr. Netanyahu's only on the margins, and the new prime
minister, with greater personal credibility and political
support than his predecessor enjoyed, will be a more
effective exponent of Israel's
position."
-- Robert Satloff's Wall Street Journal
(05/19/1999)

"Israel's Peace Now group said
Barak's government is expanding Jewish settlements in the
West Bank at a faster pace than Netanyahu did. In the
month since Barak took office, Housing Minister Yitzhak
Levy has issued tenders for the construction of 1,517
apartments in the settlements. `This is six times the
average monthly rate of house construction in the
settlements for the Netanyahu government,' said Peace Now
chairman Mossi Raz. A Housing Ministry spokesman said the
Peace Now figures are incorrect and that tenders had been
issued for only 678 new
homes."[i.e. ONLY three-times more than Netanyahu, not
six]
-- from an Associated Press report by Sari Bashi
08/10/1999.

Barak to CIA: Butt
Out By Matt Rees (Newsweek
08/23/1999). Like Netanyahu, his predecessor, Barak asked CIA out,
after it showed that Palestinians are complying with clamping down
on terrorism -- their end of the deal. Conclusion: Israel's does
not want to relinquish land to the Palestinians, so it eliminated
a major aliby --the CIA-- that they are upholding their end of the
deal and hence, that the ball is now in Israel's
court.

Either Golan
or Peace By Daniel Bloch
(Jerusalem Post 09/26/1999). Contains also an article from Arabic
News (09/23) reporting about Le Monde's calling the Golan
Heights "Syrian Territory" and saying that Israel to oppose
restoration of it to Syria.

US Seeks
to Postpone UN Session on
Settlements By Hillel Kuttler (Jerusalem Post 07/07/1999).
"because the event sends a bad signal to Prime Minister-elect Ehud
Barak, US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs
Martin Indyk [a former official of Israel's U.S. Lobby]
said yesterday." So in other words, to avoid sending a "bad
signal" to Israel's new PM, Israel is thus left free to continue
building illegal settlements on confiscated Palestinian
lands.

External link to the
Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem
the most comprehensive collection of facts/documents on the
Zionist theft of Palestine
the basis of the real "Nuremberg" trial against Zionism and its leaders

The Balfour
Declaration of 1917 "...it being
clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice
the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities
in Palestine..." -- Lord Arthur Balfour 11/02/1917, extracted
from Balfour's infamous letter. (Could it be that Balfour didn't
know the land was empty? Note also, how Balfour does not mention
the political rights of the non-Jewish communities in
Palestine.)